"The 2nd Lord Wardington, who has died aged 81, was a leading English bibliophile with a collection of 700 volumes, containing some 60,000 maps produced between the 15th century and the present day.

He inherited from his father and grandfather the nucleus of the library, which was housed at Wardington Manor, Oxfordshire, in a magnificent room with a high beamed ceiling and walls gleaming with handsome bindings; but he also greatly enriched the collection with his own acquisitions and the many volumes he had specially bound by leading modern craftsmen."

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